Alumni news
1988 George Devine recently completed his 16th year as the radio play-by-play broadcaster for the University of San Francisco’s basketball program. WCC-TV produced a special feature on Devine during this past season’s basketball championships in Las Vegas. Devine does the call on Irish Sports Radio for SHC athletics as well.
Jorge Ruiz is married to Deidre Ruiz-Rockett, and they have been living in Maui, Hawaii for 10 years. They have three beautiful children: Brasil Ruiz-Rockett, 8; Guinness, 6; and Nuala, 3. He works for the RitzCarlton Hotel in Kapalua, Hawaii.
at UCSF. Gemma is keeping these new parents very busy. Life could not be better; the family enjoys taking their fourth generation native San Franciscan all over the city! Alston Lew graduated from the Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco this year, earning his doctor of jurisprudence.
Hunter Gilliam was promoted to senior vice president and organizational development manager for Wells Fargo in San Francisco. He is back living in the Bay Area and enjoying his new position.
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Bill J. Metaxas and his wife Demetra proudly welcome their daughter, Kalliope, born on March 21, 2012. At birth she weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces and was 19 inches long.
Albert Arroyo, Jorge Ruiz, Franco Finn (SHC director of alumni relations), and Tripp Cox (L-R) were coincidentally in Maui, Hawaii at the same time for vacation back in May of this year. Ruiz has been living in Maui for the past 10 years while Arroyo, Cox and Finn all still live in the Bay Area. It’s been nearly 17 years however since Finn has seen some of the guys. Aloha, Class of ’95!
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1995
Proud parents, Lisa (Pasero) Gonzalez and Raphael, along with big sister Ashley, welcomed twins Gianna Marie and Giovanni Raphael on January 10, 2012.
1999 Nick Hardeman recently accepted a job working for the Speaker of the Assembly in Sacramento.
2000 Katrina Liu married Dr. Michael Ching on March 31, 2012. Katrina attended UC Riverside and recently earned her MBA from Michigan State University. Liu and Ching look forward to starting their married life in the Bay Area.
2001 Bryan Zahn is the senior director of baseball operations for the University of San Francisco.
2002
Jose Ortiz welcomed his baby daughter, Joselynn Marie Hope Ortiz, born on March 26 at 12:53 p.m. She weighed 7 pounds and 6 ounces.
Jesus J. Nevarez and Christine Gouveia-Nevarez ’00 welcomed their first baby, Gemma Marie Xochi Nevarez, future class of 2029! Gemma was born on Friday, September 2, 2011, while the Irish were beating up the Terra Nova Tigers. They could hear the cheers in the delivery room
2004
Aimee (Salazar) Holland still lives in San Francisco. She is happily married to her husband, Leon Holland, and the couple is expecting their first child this summer.
2003 Irene Gardner is currently on the US National Team Rugby 7’s team.
Gerusa (Valadao) Oliveira says, “I’m married to the man of my dreams, Bruno Oliveira. We own a logistics business based out of San Leandro. I am a workaholic, and I keep my spare time occupied with errands and family gatherings. My husband and I just became our niece Gabriella’s godparents.”
2007 Lance Corporal Sean Dennison was deployed as a combat correspondent to Afghanistan and returned safely last November to his base in Yuma, Arizona. He was stationed at a NATO base in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal and relished the experience. He is serving the last year of his four-year commitment and trying to decide whether to reenlist. John Unkovic graduated in June 2011 from St. Andrew’s in Scotland. There he received his Master’s in physics. Currently he works for Gener8, where he’s involved with instrumentation design.
2008 Juliet Chaitin-Lefcourt graduated from the University of Southern California with academic honors. She majored in political science and minored in public health. In addition to being an academic peer tutor for athletes, she participated in public health programs for indigent women and in JEP, USC’s student volunteer program. Juliet assisted her professor in creating a survey of HIV in women to better address their needs. She interned at TVGuide, a law school program defending juvenile offenders and a marketing
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